the unofficial NSC top50 album thread.

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

"Over-rated"? It's become fairly common on here at least for folk to think that they're being daringly iconoclastic by slating them, thereby actually revealing not much other than a) how they've probably only ever heard the singles and b) they've little sense of musical context, IMHO.

But whatever, it really is their loss...all I'll say by way of illustration is that the bloke from the Chemical Brothers plays Tomorrow Never Knows - recorded on four tracks in 1966 - at the end of raves and gets saucer-eyed teens asking which bangin' new mix that is.

Besides, I can't think of a many albums at ALL that don't have at least one slightly duff/filler track on it. :controversial:

I know there is a slag the Beatles chic going round, but it's not a bandwagon I'm on by any means. I have heard all the albums, indeed I have them all, on mp3, and have listened to them many times.

IMO the early albums were sugary manufactured pap, that doesn't really hold up at all today. The odd track I can still listen to but most of it leaves me cold. Yes, in Revolver, Pepper and maybe The White Album they have got some great tracks, but I think I could very well live without Yellow Submarine and Good Day Sunshine. In fact I do.

Anyway, I can fully understand why people do still hold The Beatles in such high esteem, it's normally a generational thing.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I know its not everyone's favourite but I love Great Escape. Parklife is also fantastic

I'd say Leisure is very good Blur album

 

[seagully]

The self titled album is also good. I went off them a bit when Graham Coxon left though

 

[culvers]

Very difficult to say, my favourite album tends to chsnge with my moods but Marvin Gaye What's going on and Pink Floyd Dark side of the Moon are a couple at the moment.

 

[Trufflehound]

"Over-rated"? It's become fairly common on here at least for folk to think that they're being daringly iconoclastic by slating them, thereby actually revealing not much other than a) how they've probably only ever heard the singles and b) they've little sense of musical context, IMHO.

I'm just bored with the Beatles through four decades of over-exposure. They had some good tunes, but I get fed up hearing them everywhere I go. Maybe it's partially self-inflicted, as I went through a "Beatles phase" in my early teens and had around 20 of their albums, which I played to death. And 30 years on I still haven't recovered. I have a few albums on mp3, but have no inclination ever to play them again. I don't need to - even though I haven't listened to Revolver in its entirety in years I could probably still sing it to you note for note (well, I could if I could actually sing...).

For what it's worth I'd say Revolver, Rubber Soul and possibly Abbey Road stand the test of time.

I feel the same way about Dark Side of the Moon (amongst others of a similar ilk). It's not that there's anything wrong with it per se, it's just that 30 years of listening to everyone banging on about how great it is has put me right off.

 

[Man of Harveys]

KSA and Truff, I totally agree that it only too possible to OVERLISTEN to stuff, in much the same way that I can no longer eat sardines after eating nothing but sardines for a week when in Portugal.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Love - Forever Changes

Nope - only a couple of good tracks, rest mostly cack

 

[Wozza]

But whatever, it really is their loss...all I'll say by way of illustration is that the bloke from the Chemical Brothers plays Tomorrow Never Knows - recorded on four tracks in 1966 - at the end of raves and gets saucer-eyed teens asking which bangin' new mix that is.

Yeah, but the theme from Trumpton would have largely the same affect.

 

[Woodchip]

Not sure if this can really be counted....

Jeff Wayne - War of The Worlds.

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

led zep.....physical graffiti
linkin park......hybrid theory

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Well here are 50 that would be contenders for my list;

Neil Young - Tonights the Night
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
AC/DC - Powerage
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Who - Who's Next
Steve Earle - Train a Comin
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Lost Soul Rebels
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Leftfield - Leftism
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers#
Beatles - Abbey Road
Steely Dan -Aja
REM - Automatic for the People
Ali Farka Toure - "Green/Red"
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Metallica - Metallica
Sugar- Beaster
Bowie - Zyggy Stadust
Sly and the Family Stone - Theres a Riot Going On
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
U2 - Joshua Tree
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Aretha Franklin - Live at Fillmore West
Johnny Cash - American Recodings IV
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain
Beatles- Sgt Pepper
James Brown - Live at the Apollo Vol 2
Mark Lanegan - Whisky for the Holy Ghost
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever OST
De La Soul - Three Feet high and Rising
Neil Young - On the Beach
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Queen - A Night at the Opera

 

[Icy Gull]

Well here are 50 that would be contenders for my list;

Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers
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Very suprised to see that in any top 50 list as it's not really Top 50 type music but it is Sinatra's best album by a distance imo. Great big band arrangements by Nelson Riddle

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Very suprised to see that in any top 50 list as it's not really Top 50 type music but it is Sinatra's best album by a distance imo. Great big band arrangements by Nelson Riddle

It's 50's top 50 material, and I like it.

 

[n1 gull]

Well here are 50 that would be contenders for my list;

Neil Young - Tonights the Night
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
AC/DC - Powerage
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Who - Who's Next
Steve Earle - Train a Comin
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Lost Soul Rebels
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Leftfield - Leftism
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers#
Beatles - Abbey Road
Steely Dan -Aja
REM - Automatic for the People
Ali Farka Toure - "Green/Red"
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Metallica - Metallica
Sugar- Beaster
Bowie - Zyggy Stadust
Sly and the Family Stone - Theres a Riot Going On
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
U2 - Joshua Tree
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Aretha Franklin - Live at Fillmore West
Johnny Cash - American Recodings IV
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Miles Davis-Sketches of Spain
Beatles- Sgt Pepper
James Brown - Live at the Apollo Vol 2
Mark Lanegan - Whisky for the Holy Ghost
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever OST
De La Soul - Three Feet high and Rising
Neil Young - On the Beach
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Queen - A Night at the Opera

Good list, then ruined by Queen - a night at the Opera. Shame.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Very suprised to see that in any top 50 list as it's not really Top 50 type music but it is Sinatra's best album by a distance imo. Great big band arrangements by Nelson Riddle

Agreed, it's brilliant. In The Wee Small Hours second.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Queen - Queen II

 

[Frutos]

Eagles - Hotel California
GNR - Appetite For Destruction
Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
REM - Automatic For The People
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

 

[wadhurstseagull]

Here they be in no particular order - this is a Tuesday list and I reserve the right to change my selection on other days of the week.

A House - I am the Greatest
Undertones - Undertones
Sex Pistols - Nevermind......
The Clash - London Calling
Slade - Sladest
Ben Watt - North Marine Drive
Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger
This Mortal Coil - Filigree and Shadow
The White Stripes - get behind me Satan
XTC - Compact XTC
Toyah - Sheep Farming In Barnet
Ramones - Its Alive
Shed Seven - A Maximum High
Buzzcocks - love Bites
Pillows and Prayers - Cherry Red compilation
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Silver Sun - Silver Sun
The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
Artic Monkeys - Whatever people say....
Bobby Conn - the Homeland
Catatonia - Equally Cursed and Blessed
Ash - 1977
Suede - Sci Fi Lullabies
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Supergrass - I should CoCo
Tracy Thorn - A Distant Shore
Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots and Panties
Iggy Pop - the idiot
Cheap Trick - At the Budokan
The Clash - Sandanista
Crowded House - Woodface
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman
Billy Bragg - Don't Try this at home
The Smiths - The Smiths
Bjork - debut
Sugarcubes - Life's too good
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Blondie - Plastic Letters
Squeeze - 45's and under
Stranglers - Black and White
Tom Waits - swordfishtrombone
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Radiohead - OK Computer
Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
The Senators - Welcome to our World
The Associates - Sulk
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
david Bowie - Heroes

 

[withdeanwombat]

Rolling Stones--Aftermath

Dylan--Another Side of,John Wesley Harding,(and any other,more or less.)

White Stripes--Elephant

Dragonforce--Inhuman Rampage.